GDC Keynote: Sony Launches Third Life - UPDATE: video footage
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Topic started: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:52
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Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:27
I have no problem with Sony stealing ideas. Honestly Sony is no different than ANY OTHER COMPANY out there. Everyone is taking previously formed ideas and building upon them. That's what's great about this world. Is not Galactic Civilizations II just a better version of MOO II? Is not Starcraft just a better version of Command and Conquer? Is not Halo just a better version of Goldeneye? But Vault, you may say, don't those games add much to the core idea and fine turning other aspects thus making it at least a better version? And I ask again, what is so wrong with Sony trying to build, successfully I might add, upon the $49.99 a year, assorted colors lego blocks bucket that Microsoft so painstakingly crafted. This is so much better than what Live is or will ever will be for a while it seems AND it's free! And here you guys are s**tting on, at least and at best (for some people unwilling to participate in the money exchange) a living game lobby. What's so wrong with trying to move past static of barely moving/changing text?
Plus I think the combination of the eye bleedingly bad polygons and the throwback Netscape 3.0 browser I think would send any current PC into permanent BSOD mode, make the keyboard lose all functionality, the LCD screen would suffer from the worst stuck pixels in the world, and the hard drive platters would spin so fast trying to change the graphics on the screen they'd unhinge, fly out of the case and head toward your juggular just for attempting to view such crap.
Plus I think the combination of the eye bleedingly bad polygons and the throwback Netscape 3.0 browser I think would send any current PC into permanent BSOD mode, make the keyboard lose all functionality, the LCD screen would suffer from the worst stuck pixels in the world, and the hard drive platters would spin so fast trying to change the graphics on the screen they'd unhinge, fly out of the case and head toward your juggular just for attempting to view such crap.
Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:10
Vault - there was more than a little irony smeared on my posting.
Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:01
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/me thinks, seeing Black Sun 10 years on, maketh Second Life look all the more pathetic
Amen to that. Cybergate/Passport were incredible for their time - but even then, they were not compelling... We played heavily in them for about 3/4 weeks and them dropped them in favour of what? IRC!
But for Second Life to be pimping something that is so obviously just a Black Sun rip off as the latest and greatest thing, and their lap dog, Reuters, reporting on it as if it's the second coming of Jim Morrison is just pathetic.
Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:22
well i play secondlife for 1 reason to make everyone else there miserable!!!!!
Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:42
While this thread has been resurrected, I though it opportune to point out that development of Home actually began three years ago.
In this month's Develop mag there's a column by Sony's Jonathan Venables where he writes about his experiences in prototyping an social lobby and gathering place for the PS2 network - back then is was called "Hub"
In this month's Develop mag there's a column by Sony's Jonathan Venables where he writes about his experiences in prototyping an social lobby and gathering place for the PS2 network - back then is was called "Hub"
Fri, 4 Jan 2008 21:41
when does the lbp demo released, its not coming fall 07 so when plz answer
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However, I found a piccy of what Sony is ripping off, Black Sun's Passport, circa 1997.
This is scurrilous! Damn Sony, those thieving, uncreative bastards. Ripping off 10 year old technology!
/me thinks, seeing Black Sun 10 years on, maketh Second Life look all the more pathetic